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Friday, September 5, 2008

OK, so I was suppose to announce the winner of the gross food find contest yesterday and I totally forgot. Sorry! The winner was Angela who was the first person to guess strawberry! Congratulations! Email me with your shipping address and I'll get the videos out to you. :)

Most of you guessed strawberry or other fruit. Several of you guessed gum, a few guessed hotdog or other meat. But I just had to share some of the more, um, "unusual" guesses I received.

I'd have said dracula's heart was left under the couch too long.Don't be silly. Was there a wooden stake through it? Noooo.

It looks like a dead bird...

No, this is what a dead bird looks like. This guy flew into our door and dropped. Another reason for not cleaning your windows.

I know this may result in PETA writing me to complain, but it looks like a decomposed Rottweiler puppy head.

Thankfully I don't have a picture of this to compare, but I'm pretty sure a strawberry and a puppy head look nothing alike.

It actually looks like a rotten giant's tooth.

Just to clarify, do you mean the tooth of a rotten giant? Or a rotten tooth from a regular giant?

That looks horribly like a day-old chick that's had its head ripped off!

Oh my gosh what's wrong with you people?!?!?!

A portion of someone's colon or a strawberry.No. This is a colon :

I'm guessing a half eaten peach(although it looks a bit like a alien cornish game hen.......)

Yes, no garden variety Cornish hens for us. Nope, we just eat the alien ones.

OMG! Is that a tooth on the lower right amongst the rabies foam?

Not unless someone's tooth fell out while eating the strawberry and got stuck in it in which case, I've got to scrounge up some money so the tooth fairy can pay a visit.

Oh this is easy. It's a 'speriment.

LOL!

maybe Malibu Ken's head?

Nope. Perhaps it's Prince Eric's though?My 10 yr old said it was a puppy.

Close, but not quite.. actually, no it's not even close.

My 4 yr old said it was a puppy that was all bleeding and moldy under someone's couch bed.

OK, who let the 4 year old watch Cujo?

I think it's the heart that the woodsman cut out of a deer to fool the queen in Snow White.

And it got under my couch how?

Looks like the Thing That Ate Cincinnati.

Nah, it's not big enough.

The partially decomposed, and shrunken head of a capuchin monkey?

Hmmm, that's oddly specific. Not just any ole monkey, but the shrunken head of a Capuchin monkey.

Clay's appendix?

Now if you'd have guessed "tonsils" I might have questioned whether he'd managed to bring his tonsils home in a jar and leave them under the couch.

it's a wombat!!

LOL! We had another wombat last night. I took a picture of it. Looks rather like a cat, don't you think; a cat with freakish alien eyes.

it could be the remains of the head of a mutant miniture bear cub.

I might have agreed if you'd said "mutant full-size bear cub", but it clearly isn't a miniature bear cub.

Is that Anita Renfrow's thyroid?

LOL! I sure hope not!

It also looks like a headless dead mouse I found one time.

OK, what's with all the decapitations? I'm seriously beginning to wonder about my readers! Group therapy maybe?

The tongue of a rabid dog?

Well, at least it's not the head of a rabid dog this time.

Yeah...it's a strawberry morphing into a hamster head.

Can strawberries do that?

I'm guessing a dead slug. Something about the look of little sucker feet on the right side of the image.

Um yeah, those are SEEDS.

Whatever it was, I'd probably called a hazmat warning on it. *grin**picturing the fire dept coming into your house in their hazmat suits to safely encapsulate and remove the offending whatever-it-is*The kids would LOVE it!

Shhhh! Don't give them any ideas!

Ok, I was going to say a decapitated hamster head. Gross, I know...but that's what it looks like to me. And I was eating something. WAS being the operative word there.I have a very strong stomach...I can't handle staring at it. If you can't handle puke I'm not sure how you cleaned this up.

I can handle this because:

A. It doesn't look like puke.

B. It doesn't sound like puke.

C. It doesn't smell like puke. And...

D. I didn't envision any decapitated heads when I saw it!

And finally there were several of these comments:

Oh gosh Dawn, just as I was coughing up a lung with asthma I clicked and saw your post. I did a double take (and almost lost my meal) because I thought it was a dead mouse head! Please, no more moldy food!!!!

I can't look at it long enough to make a guess. I think I just threw up a little in my mouth...

I am so creeped out by that picture I can't even explain the eebee jeebies (sound it out) that run down my spine every time I see that picture. I can't get that image out of my head, pahhhhleeeze tell me what it was in its former life b/c I seriously can't erase that picture from my brain-ICKO!

People, people, have you never seen Dirty Jobs? Or even just changed a nasty diaper where the contents have squished all up baby's back? A moldy strawberry is nothing in comparison.

i have to comment on the headless prince! your kids are so much luckier than we were! at least they have (headless) boy barbies! we had to cut the hair off our barbies to pretend they were boys . .. (didn't seem at all strange 20 years ago)

Oh I love it! I love it even more seeing what other people guessed (cuz sorry, Dawn, but I'm not patient enough to scroll though and read all your comments -- I'll leave that to you!).

The focus on decapitation was a bit odd. Maybe because it was reddish? And while I'm with you on the puke thing, I have to part ways with you here. I take items out of the fridge when they get moldy and leave them on the counter where my husband or my mom disposes of them when I'm safely not around. My gag reflex is a bit too strong. And yet I can change any diaper under the sun. Go figure!

In defense of all the "decapitated" guessers, if you have an indoor/outdoor cat, a decapitated critter is not uncommon to find. Trust me, I know. It's totally gross, but very true. And if you are stupid enough to put a "cat door" on your house, you could possibly find them inside...not that I would know anything about that. But...um...we don't have a cat door anymore.

So there you go. The "decapitated" guessers could be perfectly innocent people with killer cats. Don't be too hard on them...lol!

Note to self--when you've been looking forward (for hours) to having a few minutes of peace and quiet after everyone is in bed to enjoy a snack that you get to eat hot and not share (in this case, nachos) while perusing entertaining blogs, DON'T read the results from one of Dawn's "what is this freaky foreign object" polls.

Now I have to find something else to eat and something else to read to redeem the experience!

This was a bizarre read. Some of your readers have vivid imaginations!

But I have to say, it was much more entertaining than the election posts all my other regular blog-writers are offering. Thanks for reminding me that there is something happening in the world other than the upcoming US presidential election!